https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373705
Nicolas Werner <nicolas.wer...@ymail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Nicolas Werner <nicolas.wer...@ymail.com> ---
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)
> Thanks for the comment
>
> > or the favorite programs on application menu can be quite different for
> > workflows, which is not possible at the moment.
>
> This now exists in 5.9, integrated into the launcher itself.
> If you have any other specific ideas of activity specific configurations
> within an applet, we can look into that on a case-by-case basis.
>
> Having completely different panel configurations I think would just be too
> complicated to show in the UI, and involve the user doing a lot of duplicate
> reconfiguring for global actions that exist above activities.
I agree, that configuration would be harder, so there is a case to be made,
that by default panels are synced between activities.
Still, there are cases, where you want completely different layouts of your
panels between activities. If you have a separate activity for drawing, you may
want to have a unity like task switcher on the side of your desktop. This would
require a bigger panel on a different edge of the screen. While programming
this may be wasted space, so you'd switch to a standard windows-like layout.
Maybe you'd even want to set the task switcher to autohide, which would be
annoying to activate with a graphics tablet, but with a mouse it is much
easier.
This can't be done with an automatic transition based on input devices present
like with a virtual keyboard as I don't usually disconnect my graphics tablet
when I'm not using it. The panel layout I need simply depends on the activity
I'm doing.
There are also other possible use cases. You may not want to see notifications
as well as the current time when you are studying. You may want a different
application launcher when you are playing games and you may want to have your
panels on different screens while editing a video.
Configuring your activities like that may be some work, but at the same time
activities would provide much more value as you could tailor each activity to
exactly one workflow instead of having to compromise.
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